Jenkins Denounces Whitewashing of TVA Work by Donahey Committee
The Democratic majority on the joint congressional TVA inquiry absolved the Tennessee Valley Authority of mismanagement waste and dishonesty charges. Six members led by Senator Donahey signed a report while three Republicans issued a minority finding that the probe was a whitewash.
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Jenkins
TVA
Donahey
Washington
Joint Congressional Committee
Tennessee Valley Authority
A. E. Morgan
Vic Donahey
Ohio
Thomas A. Jenkins
Congress
Sen
James J. Davis
Charles A. Wolverton
N. J
Francis Biddle
New Deal
Thomas A. Panter
Foot of Woman May Belong to Torso Murder Victim
Cleveland police theorize the dumped foot may belong to the 14th torso murder victim linked to the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. Junk salvagers turned the foot to detectives. last bodies were found Aug near the Lake Erie front dump. Previous victims include a man and a woman. heads of six victims have been recovered.
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Cleveland
U.P
Kingsbury Run
Peter Merylo
Lake Erie
State Senator to Face Drunk Driving Charge
Toledo. State Senator Richard Milroy will appear before Municipal Judge Homer Ramey on April 14 charged with driving while intoxicated. Milroy was fined $25 and costs for operating a car without a license and obtained a continuance on the intoxication charge. Attorney Stephen Fazekas plans to enter a not guilty plea.
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Toledo
U PX
Richard Milroy
Homer Ramey
Milroy
Stephen Fazekas
Belgian elections show fascist losses nationwide
Returns from Sunday elections indicate Belgian parties win in former German areas while Belgian Fascist candidates suffer heavy losses across the country.
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Brussels
U.P
Toy
Ex Premier Col Slawek Dies From Personal Wound
Warsaw reports Col Slawek aged 60 a former premier and ally of Marshal Pilsudski died today from a pistol wound in a personal crisis.
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Warsaw
Col
Slawek
Josef Pilsudski
Franco Making Ready To Try Fascist Fees
Nationalist authorities in Madrid ordered Republican soldiers to report to concentration camps for classification as to reprisals. About 20 000 former Republicans and 1 500 Red criminals have been rounded up. Those with no Republican sympathies will be released. others will be divided into groups for labor battalions or court martial. An estimated 150 000 soldiers may surrender in the central zone.
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Madrid
U.P
Toe Kissed Nurse Marian Cribbs Confronts Suspect Bent on Marriage
In New York the self-styled Robin Hood burglar tweaked Nurse Marian Cribbs's big toe kissed it and proposed marriage. She managed to remove him from her apartment and arranged his arrest.
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Marian Cribbs
New York
Robin Hood
Miss Cribbs
G-Men report on U S Nazis in Volksbund group
U S G men disclose Volksbund membership estimated at 6600 to 8300 in the United States. Fritz Kuhn is linked to Adolf Hitler in the 1923 Munich beer hall coup attempt. The inquiry finds no clear breach of federal law or Hitler control. Kuhn endorses Naziism as the future hope.
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Washington
4U.P
Gmen
Volksbund
Germany
Bund
Fritz Kuhn
Adolf Hitler
Munich
Hitler
Kuhn
Farm Groups oppose New Deal wage hour extension
Four national farm organizations denounce proposals by House Labor Committee Chair Mary Norton to amend the wage hour act to extend its jurisdiction to agricultural workers. They argue the amendments would hurt farmers and erode protections already provided by the act.
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Washington
N.P
Mary Norton
N. J
House Labor Committee
Messenger's Annual Cooking School Opens at High School
The Athens Merchants' Cooking School begins tomorrow at 2 PM in the Senior High Building with four free classes led by Mrs. Lautz. The program showcases a modern stage kitchen and labor saving devices while addressing leftovers laundry day and entertaining guests for homemakers from brides to grandmothers.
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Messenger
Athens Merchants’ Cooking School
Lautz
Mes
Urges Roosevelt To Resign After "Tragic Failure" Statement
Frank E. Gannett at National Republican Club luncheon urged President Roosevelt resign citing fiscal failure and rising unemployment. He compared US leadership to parliamentary governments and warned of a growing deficit after nine months of the fiscal year, far above the prior year.
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New York
Roosevelt
Frank E. Gannett
National Republican Club
Gannett
Violent Death Toll Reaches Seven in Ohio
A week end string of accidents in Ohio leaves seven dead. Arthur Benjamin 21 of Dola and Oden Curl 32 of Ada die when a Pennsylvanian Railroad train strikes a car in Ada. Emmett McDonald 7 is struck by a car in Columbus. Joseph Barbeck 6 drowns at Cleveland. Joseph Baskey 13 dies from accidental rifle discharge in Fremont.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Limited
Ada
Arthur Benjamin
Dola
Oden Curl
Emmett McDonald
Columbus
Robert W. Byers
Joseph Barbeck
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Joseph Baskey
Michael Baskey
Fremont
Worried Mother Smothers Infant Then Stabs Self
Pittsburgh report says Blanche M Brown 22 smothered her ten week old son Harold Jr believing deformity and then stabbed herself with a butcher knife. She was in critical condition in hospital.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Harold Jr
Penn Township
Blanche M. Brown
Railroad Men Join To Protest Canal Project
Pittsburgh report notes protests by 21 railroad brotherhoods in Ohio and Pennsylvania against the proposed Ohio River Lake Erie canal project recommended by U S Army engineers. The action combines multiple unions to oppose the canal plan amid ongoing infrastructure debate.
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TVA
Federal Power Commission
Army Engineers
Department of Agriculture
Pittsburgh
U.P
Ohio
Pennsylvania
U. S. Army Engineers
Trailer Not Legal Residence Says Ohio Secretary
COLUMBUS Ohio Secretary of State Earl Griffith told county election officials that an automobile trailer cannot serve as a bona fide registration address. He stressed that fixity and permanency of an address cannot be established by owning or occupying a trailer.
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Columbus
U.P
Earl Griffith
Griffith
Lifeline Thread Helps Kansas City Woman Swallow
Mrs. Agnes Gregory aged 32 of Kansas City Missouri uses a yard of thread and metal beads to pass food after throat constriction from childhood lye burns. Doctors describe the thread as a lifeline enabling swallowing and feeding.
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Agnes Gregory
Kansas City
Priest Calms Gunman During Five Story Rescue
In New York on a Sunday morning a Roman Catholic priest climbed a fire escape to a hostage room where a man held two people. The priest spoke to Joseph Naumo, age 23, an ex convict, and persuades him to surrender handing over the gun. Naumo fears police punishment and faces a lengthy sentence.
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New York
Francis X. Quinn
Joseph Naumo
Naumo
Naomo
Companions Say Girl Died Following Fall
Two men carried an unconscious 28 year old Mary Riley from a Riverside Drive apartment to a hospital where she died minutes later from a fractured skull. The pair, Hugh Hillard and Buddy Kelly, said the Georgia resident had recently arrived from Atlanta after dancing when she fell.
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New York
U.P
Riverside Drive
Hugh Hillard
Kelly
Mary Riley
Atlanta
Miss Riley
Unidentified Movers Upset Flags as Polls Open in Denmark
In North Schleswig polling day began for a general parliamentary election when unknown individuals overturned flag poles and cut flag halyards in several areas.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Schleswig
Ours Will Be Happiest Easter in Ohio Tale
Gallipolis couple long separated by mental illness reunite after 20 years. Mrs Lott improves and Mr Lott retires after a 20 year pension from Athens State Hospital. They return to their home on Second Ave where everything is as left, promising to resume life together.
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Ohio
Gallipolis
Athens
Charles Lott
Athens State Hospital
Mrs. Lott
Mr. Lott
Powers Line Up Group To Halt Hitler
Great Britain and France push to form a European bloc against aggression led by Britain, France, Poland, and Romania with Russia and others as partners. Britain and France plan watchdogs on Hitler and consider ambassadors’ recall to Berlin. Poland and Romania would get Russian munitions and air power if attacked. Turkey would ensure British fleet passage through the Dardanelles. Total armed manpower would top 13 million against axis powers. Russia could supply up to 10 million.
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London
U.P
Great Britain
France
Britain
Poland
Rumania
Russia
Yugoslavia
Turkey
Greece
Hitler
Berlin
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Paris
Dardanelles
Romania
Jugoslavia
Italy
Hungary
Viscount Halifax
Parliament
Lord Halifax
Soviet Russia
Richard Austen Butler
House of Commons
Bucharest
Vote in Chicago Will Be Test of New Deal
Chicago voters head to the polls tomorrow as Mayor Edward J. Kelly seeks re election against Republican Dwight H. Green. Observers say the contest tests a major city political machine and could influence Illinois 29 electoral votes in the 1940 presidential race. Kelly is identified with the New Deal platform.
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Chicago
U.P
Edward J. Kelly
Dwight H.green
Eeations
Illinois
Kelly
Thousands Flock To See Sandusky Ruins
Sandusky officials and building owners met to plan a modern business block on the ruins of the Friday fire that destroyed several structures. Police and state patrols reported about 10,000 vehicles with around 40,000 people visited the scene Sunday.
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Sandusky
U.P
Chamber of Commerce
Ronald Bravard
Wage Terms Agreed Upon In Meeting
In New York negotiators for 2000 operators and 338000 UMWA miners faced a deadlock as the Appalachian soft coal wage talks extended beyond the March 31 contract expiry. John L. Lewis proposed a two year renewal with a closed shop, while operators pushed for a two year term without that provision and for penalties to remain. The conference split over the closed shop and penalty clauses, with observers skeptical an early agreement would emerge. Secretary of Labor Perkins pressed for a two year renewal during the weekend.
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New York
United Mine Workers of America
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Maryland
Michigan
Virginia
Tennessee
Lewis Finaly
Lewis
Perkins
Towns income lost in strike over flood assessments
Newcomerstown Council will address the town’s empty treasury tonight as 98 percent of property owners in Oxford Salem and Washington Townships fail to pay Muskingum Conservative District flood benefit assessments. Only 1000 of 12000 taxes were paid. normal property taxes require the flood assessment.
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Newcomerstown
U.P
Newcomerstown Council
Muskingum-Conservani District
Oxford
Salem
Washington
Tuscarawas County
Yankee Clipper Lands On French Soil Today
The Pan American Airways 41-ton flying boat Yankee Clipper arrived at Marignane Airport in Marseille at 4 47 pm after a 370 mile flight from Biscarosse Military Airdrome near Bordeaux. It will continue tomorrow to Southampton England as part of its Europe shakedown flight.
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Marseilles
France
Pan American Airways
Marignane
Biscarosse
Bordeau
Bay of Biscay
Southampton
England
Europe
Protesters from Europe and New York condemn Nazi seizure
Former Czech leader Eduard Benes and New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia join locals in Cleveland on Sunday to condemn Nazi Germany for seizing Czechoslovakia after the war.
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Cleveland
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Fiorello H. ‘LaGuardia
New York City
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Priest
Harry R. Hurn
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